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    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Monday, February 13, 2023 21:24:46
    With the shortage of Raspberry Pi boards the past few years, I've been keeping an eye out on where to buy one for not too much money. Today I saw this video about Raspberry Pi alternatives, and some of these look interesting. There are a few that are drop-in replacements for the Rasperry Pi, too.

    https://youtu.be/uJvCVw1yONQ

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to Nightfox on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 07:31:21
    On 13 Feb 2023, Nightfox said the following...

    With the shortage of Raspberry Pi boards the past few years, I've been keeping an eye out on where to buy one for not too much money. Today I saw this video about Raspberry Pi alternatives, and some of these look interesting. There are a few that are drop-in replacements for the Rasperry Pi, too.

    https://youtu.be/uJvCVw1yONQ

    Nightfox

    I'm Glad I bought a few of them when the gettin was good. It's sad that its come to having to have the alternatives but I get it. The thing the video doesn't show you is that many of them the accessories are much more than the Pi versions. Cases and power supplies. Nice thing is most of them have full size HDMI. I would maybe do an Orange Pi or the Odroid stuff. There are versions of the Odroid with much more power processors that could really handle a good multi node BBS with doors.

    Let me know what you pick and what your experience is.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 07:56:00
    Nightfox wrote to All <=-

    With the shortage of Raspberry Pi boards the past few years, I've
    been keeping an eye out on where to buy one for not too much
    money. Today I saw this video about Raspberry Pi alternatives,
    and some of these look interesting. There are a few that are
    drop-in replacements for the Rasperry Pi, too.

    https://youtu.be/uJvCVw1yONQ

    Excellent, thanks for that. The Orange Pi 5 looks quite impressive.



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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to Nightfox on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 11:36:59
    Nightfox wrote (2023-02-13):

    With the shortage of Raspberry Pi boards the past few years, I've been keeping an eye out on where to buy one for not too much money. Today I
    saw this video about Raspberry Pi alternatives, and some of these look interesting. There are a few that are drop-in replacements for the Rasperry Pi, too.

    https://youtu.be/uJvCVw1yONQ

    Are there any with (multiple) PCIe, SATA, NVMe ports?

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Oli on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 09:23:09
    Re: Raspberry Pi alternatives
    By: Oli to Nightfox on Tue Feb 14 2023 11:36 am

    these look interesting. There are a few that are drop-in
    replacements for the Rasperry Pi, too.

    https://youtu.be/uJvCVw1yONQ

    Are there any with (multiple) PCIe, SATA, NVMe ports?

    I haven't done much research on that, so I'm not sure.

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  • From Mattermorphosis@21:1/172 to Oli on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 13:37:12
    Check hackerboards.com. It is a single board computer database and you can drill down by feature based on what it is you need. If you prefer to stick
    with RPi, you can find all sorts of hats for it to extend its capabilities.

    Cheers

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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Oli on Thursday, February 16, 2023 07:42:29
    On 14 Feb 2023 at 11:36a, Oli pondered and said...

    Nightfox wrote (2023-02-13):

    With the shortage of Raspberry Pi boards the past few years, I've been keeping an eye out on where to buy one for not too much money. Today saw this video about Raspberry Pi alternatives, and some of these look interesting. There are a few that are drop-in replacements for the Rasperry Pi, too.

    https://youtu.be/uJvCVw1yONQ

    Are there any with (multiple) PCIe, SATA, NVMe ports?

    Many. For instance, the Radxa RockPi 4 has PCIe.

    NVMe is really just a standard for attaching SSD devices
    directly to a PCIe bus; if you can find the right form
    factors it should just "work" (the storage device is just
    another device in the PCIe topology). With the right
    firmware blobs versions, you can boot from NVMe as well.

    SATA is a little more complex, but there are SBCs with SATA
    connectors in an M.2 form factor. Gigabyte ethernet PHYs
    connecting directly to e.g. a PCIe fabric as well, instead
    of using a USB bridge.

    The actual Raspberry Pi isn't all that impressive, to be
    honest.

    Some SBCs based on the higher-end Rockchip SoCs probably
    support multiple PCIe/NVMe devices. Some even have ethernet
    switch chips baked in, giving you either multiple ethernet
    ports or an actual switch fabric directly connected to the
    SoC's root complex.

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